Frances Hoggard:

Date of Birth	c1771-1775
Parents	Unknown
Education	Unable to write. Signed official papers with a “X”
Convicted	14 March, 1797, Dorset, England Crime unknown (theft, prostitution, other?)
Sentence	Transportation for 7 years
Arrived Sydney	12 June, 1801, aboard "Earl of Cornwallis”, aged between 26 and 30 years old
Married	No marriage records have been found for Frances Hoggard. However she had 4 children to James Stanton, and is known to also have had a relationship with a Mr L Gray.
Muster of 1800-1802	Does not have Frances listed, even though there are other convicts from the “Earl of Cornwallis” listed
Muster of 1805-1806	Shows Frances Hoggard, free by servitude (of sentence), living with James Stanton. James Stanton is not listed separately. In the Marsden Female Muster it shows Frances in a concubine relationship with two illegitimate children, a daughter, Elizabeth, and a son.
Muster of 1814	Shows Frances Hoggard as free, not dependent on government supplies, with four children, wife of James Stanton from the “Coromandel 2”
Ticket of Emancipation	Frances received her Ticket of Emancipation on 2 February, 1811. Even though she had finished serving her sentence in 1805, this document proved her freedom. She lost the document in 1813 and received a duplicate copy on 18 September, 1823 (as listed in the Sydney Gazette)
Muster of 1822	Shows Frances as wife of Mr L. Gray of Sydney (James had died earlier that year). Women in the colony often called themselves “wife” but were not married – equivalent to today’s de-facto relationship
Census of 1828	Shows Frances Hoggard, 57 years old (suggests born in 1771) free by servitude, occupation washerwoman to her son-in-law, Mr Plows, at Appin, NSW
Died	11 March, 1838, aged 63 years (suggests born in 1775). Buried at St Peters Church, Campbelltown

James Stanton

There is a bit of confusion over who was James Stanton. There were two convicts in the colony with the same name, and we’re not sure which is the right one, however we assume it is the James Stanton who was transported in 1804 aboard “Coromandel 2”. Below is a summary of the details we have of these two men.

James Stanton #1:

Date of Birth	Unknown
Parents	Unknown
Arrested	Suspected pick-pocketing of a silk purse, worth one shilling, a silk handkerchief, worth two shillings, and 5 shillings and sixpence in money from Mr William Chance
Convicted	10 December, 1789, Old Bailey, Middlesex Gaol, London
Sentence	Transportation for 7 years
Arrived Sydney	26 September, 1791, aboard "Active" – 2^nd ship of the 3^rd fleet to sail to Australia
Employer	Unknown

James Stanton #2:

Date of Birth	c1772
Parents	Unknown
Arrested	Unknown
Convicted	14 March, 1803, Maidstone, England
Sentence	Transportation for Life
Arrived Sydney	17 May 1804, aboard "Coromandel 2”
Employer	Occupation of general seaman about various ships, including the “Endeavour” and the “Porpoise”
Died	20 February, 1822, aged 50 years

Richard Eagles:

Richard Eagles married one of James Stanton and Frances Hoggard’s daughters, Elizabeth. One of their children, Sarah Ann, married a Willaim Henry Cooper. The details of Richard Eagles are set out below:

Date of Birth	c1795, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Parents	Unknown
Education	Unable to write. Signed official papers with a “X”
Arrested	Arrested for being a highwayman and robbing 5 pounds
Convicted	2 August, 1817, Birmingham
Sentence	Transportation for Life
Height	5 foot 4 ½
Complexion	Dark to medium complexion
Hair	Brown hair
Eyes	Hazel eyes
Occupation	Labourer
Arrived Sydney	5 May, 1818, aboard "Neptune”
Muster of 1822	Richard Eagles had been assigned as a convict servant to Mr A. Byrne in Appin, NSW. Mr Byrne had property that adjoined the Broughtan’s “Lachlan Vale” property. The Muster of 1822 also showed Elizabeth Stanton as a servant girl to Mrs Boughton. Richard was later assigned to Mrs Broughton also.
Married	15 February, 1825, to Elizabeth Stanton, daughter of James Stanton and Frances Hoggard. Richard was 30 years old, Elizabeth was approx 20years old
Children	Richard and Sarah had 10 children all born on the “Lachlan Vale”: property, between 1826 and 1844. One of children, Sarah Ann, had a second marriage to a William Henry Cooper, born c1844 (to William Cooper and Mary Rice, of Appin). It is from this line that our Cooper surname evolves. We are yet to learn more about William and Mary
Pardoned	27 April, 1837 (19 years after being sentenced to Life, same period as Joseph Moulder)
Died	17 September, 1844, age 49 years old. Buried at St Marks Church, Appin, NSW. Died at “Lachlan Vale” property, which was owned by the Broughton family.

The history of Appin, NSW

Appin is located 71 km south-west of Sydney on the road between Wollongong and Campbelltown and 240 m above sea-level.

Appin was named in 1811 by Governor Macquarie after a small coastal village in Argyleshire in Scotland where his wife was born. It was the fifth village in the colony. The first local land grant was made that year to Deputy Commissary General William Broughton. He called his 1000 acres Lachlan Vale after Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

The following year Macquarie gave 100 acres to Andrew Hume who had journeyed to NSW in 1789 as an instructor in agriculture. His sons were John and Hamilton. The latter would become a noted explorer. With an Aboriginal guide the two boys made their first exploratory trip south in 1814, crossing the Razorback range and examining the areas now occupied by Picton, Mittagong, Bowral, Berrima and Bong Bong. Two years later they travelled to the Goulburn Plains.

Hamilton Hume was granted 300 acres at Appin. It was either he or his father that built the homestead 'Beulah', which is still standing, halfway to Campbelltown, on the Appin Road, though it is not visible from the road and not open to the public. The 1824 Hume and Hovell expedition to Port Phillip left from a point nearby on the Appin Rd which is marked by a monument erected in 1924 and made of stone taken from the Hume's house.

The area was inhabited by the Tharawal Aboriginal tribe prior to colonisation. However, fiercely contested wars between the indigenous people and the Europeans ensued, particularly between 1812 and 1816. Consequently a punitive military expedition was undertaken resulting in the deaths of 14 Aborigines at Cataract Gorge, though it is believed many more rushed to their deaths at that location. Perhaps it is a sign of the conflict that the upper reaches of the Georges River, initially known by its Tharawal name of Toggerai or Tuggerah Creek, was later changed.

Other settlers followed, establishing cattle and wheat properties. The townsite was surveyed in 1834. It is now hard to imagine that there was a time from the 1830s through to the construction of the South Coast railway in the 1880s when Appin was one of the main staging posts for people heading to the Illawarra. It was during this time that the Royal Hotel was built and people like the famous letter writer Rachel Henning lived in the area.

Historic Buildings in the District
Two historic buildings lie outside of the town. Drive along Appin Rd to the southern end of town and take the last right before Wilton Rd, into Brooks Point Rd. Northampton Dale Rd departs to the left and heads, unsurprisingly, to Northampton Dale, the homestead of the Broughton family, the recipients of the first land grant in the area (1811). The original name of the 1000-acre estate was Lachlan Vale, named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie who issued the grant.

William Broughton arrived as a free settler with the First Fleet in 1789. He owned a store in Parramatta and later became deputy commissioner of stores in Sydney. His daughter Betsy, one of the survivors of the Boyd massacre in New Zealand when she was but two, later married Charles Throsby. Broughton died in 1821 though his wife remained at Lachlan Vale until her death in 1843. It was the subsequent owner, John Percival, who renamed the property. His descendant still lives in the house.

It is not known for certain when Northampton Dale was built though it was the third building on the property and predates 1840. It has a half-mansard roof, stone walls, multi-paned windows, and some related slab farm buildings.

Broughton Pass Aboriginal Massacre Site

Governor Macquarie had endeavoured to abide by the British Government’s instructions to ensure that British subjects attempt to live in ‘amity and kindness’ with the indigenous population. However, between 1814 and 1816 relations between Aborigines and Europeans in the Appin area became hostile, perhaps exaccerbated by a severe drought which further increased pressures on the scarce food supplies. In May, 1814 three members of the militia fired on Aboriginals on two farms at Appin, killing a boy. This led to retaliation by the remaining Aborigines, followed by further violence by whites. Over the next two years hostilities escalated until in March 1816, members of the Gundangara attacked settlers, killing some and destroying property (McGill, 1994.).

It was in response to these attacks that Macquarie felt compelled to ‘inflict terrible and exemplary punishments’ on the Aborigines. He ordered three military detachments of the46th Regiment, under the command of Capt. Shaw, Capt. Wallis and Lieut. Dawe to be dispatched to Windsor, Liverpool and the Cowpastures to deal with the ‘Natives’ by ‘punishing and clearing the country of them entirely, and driving them across the mountains.’(Lachlan Macquarie, Diary, 10 April, 1816 - 1 July 1818, cited in McGill, 1994.).

Wallis was assigned to the Airds and Appin areas. Early one morning he and his men came across the Dharawal men’s camp at Appin. They slaughtered the men and cut off the heads of fourteen elders to take back to Sydney. While Wallis returned to Sydney, civilians, including stockmen, remained and continued to hunt down the Dharawal. They found the camp where women and children were staying, shooting or trampling them under their horses’ hooves and driving them over the cliffs of Broughton Pass (Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, "Genocide," n.d., 14-17.).

The massacre at Appin differed from subsequent massacres in that it was initiated by British troops, rather than by police or private citizens. The massacre annihilated the Dharawal people, whose numbers had already been decimated by disease, to less than three thousand. After the massacres of 1816 there were perhaps less than five remaining(Bodkin-Andrews, "Genocide," 17, 18, 21.).